Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-23
THE ANNUAL ADDRESS.
Delivered by Hon. Joseph Budd, of t
Cifv nf Stockton

ANNUAL
Delivered by Hon. Joseph Budd, of the
City of Stockton.
The annual address, which was to have
been delivered by Hon. James Budd, was
| delivered in the Art Gallery last evening
by his father, the Hon. Joseph Budd, who
took the place of his son, owing to the lat
| ter's illness. The speaker was introduced
by President Shippee. Mr.. Budd spoke as
follows:
Mr. President, Directors Of tie State Aqri-
cultural Society, Ladies and Gentlemen The
| published annual reports of this Society
abound in many and carefully considered
statistics of the productions of this State,
and the coming published report of the
| transactions of the Society for the present
year, like former ones, will contain all
needed statistical information respecting
| the progress of California, and will make it
| unnecessary even if the limited time al
| lotted permitted me SO to do for me to give
to you any detailed statements OF what has
been done in the way of developing the
| agricultural and industrial wealth of the
State. | will, therefore, content myself in
INDUCING in what might be called glitter
ing generalities, or rather in stating in gen.
Sidl lllolj Tic HOSSlDIiltltS Vi S9ll-
fornia for material improvement and ad-
yancement in population and wealth; sec
ond, some of the causes which have
hitherto retarded its growth, and third
the fact that these retarding causes are dis
appearing and reasons showing why they
soon will disappear altogether.
The total area of California is 155. $50
square miles, the much larger proportion
of which is capable of being properly cult
waited. The population of California, ac-
cording to the census of 1880, was only
S64, 694 persons, an increase since the CEN
sus of 1870 of only about 200, 600 people.
! Italy, with an area of only ia ,296 square
| miles, had in 1871 population of nearly
100000 of people. The United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland has an area of
| a little more that 10000 square miles, and
has population of over 35,000,000; and
Prussia, with her 81 600, 900 of inhabitants
has an area of 137, 066 square miles.
Each of these countries, with its teeming
millions of people, has less area of cult
vatable soil than has this State, and in sa-
lubrity and mildness California equals, if ii
does not surpass even Italy ITSELF the most
favored in that respect Of any of these ma
tons, and for fertility of soil this land is
surpassed by none of them.
Turning back the pages of history and
taking a retrospective view Of the nations
of antiquity, we find that Egypt, Assyria,
Persia, those cradles of ancient civilization,
were inhabited by much more dense pop
ulation than now inhabit Italy or England;
the island of Ceylon, on whose mountain
tops are to be seen to-day the footsteps of
ancient civilization, possessed in ancient
times within her borders containing an
area of little more than $4,000 miles, cities
larger and more populous than is the city
OF London; and comparatively small Pal
estine, the land which God promised as an
inheritance to the seed of Abraham, had in
the time of the reign of King David one
million three hundred thousand valiant
men who drew the sword Athens, Mace
donia and ancient Rome, and gold-gorged
and gOld-ruined Spain, in their palmiest
days were not possessed of the varied eli
mate and the soil products and adaptability
for greatness that our own loved State now
has.
If Buckle be right, and the advancement
of civilization and culture of man depends
upon these four conditions, namely LIST,
climate; I'd, food; 3D., soil, and 4th, physi-
cal aspects OF the land-all these elements,
which tend to make great and prosper
GUS people, are within the bounds of this,
the Golden State. Its soil, varying with
locality, will yield the vegetable products
of the most fertile and favored of modern
and of ancient countries.
In looking over the reports of our Con-
suls to foreign lands and the conditions
requisite for the cultivation and raising of
the products which constitute their prin-
ciple staple exports, we find here all the
conditions for their like production. The
figs OF Smyrna, the olives Of Spain and AL
giers, the silks and wines of France, the
wheat of Russia, the hemp of India, and
the oranges of Sicily can all be produced
here with proper cultivation. We have
the SOIL we have climate, we have the
moisture and the facilities for procuring
moisture, requisite for the production ofall
the vegetable products of the temperate
zone, and many Of the semi-tropical
fruits.
The usual winter rains are sufficient for
the commencement of their growth and
usually for their maturity. 1t has been
demonstrated that by deep and thorough
cultivation of the soil vines and trees will
grow and mature their fruit here without
summer rains and without irrigation. But
nature supplies the needed moisture with
out summer rains near the borders of the
ocean; and in the interior of the State she
has placed inexhaustible reservoirs, from
which can be procured the needed irri-
eating streams even during the dryest of
seasons.
The westerly winds during the summer
season, passing over the ocean landward.
bear on their wings the moisture-giving
fog clouds, which fully supply all summer
needed moisture for the land, extending
many miles inland from the ocean shore
and each winter NANTES the SUBMITS of
our mountain ranges with deep new-fallen
SNOW. This the rays of the spring and
summer sun dissolve and send in feftiliz-
ing streams, some coursing along the sur
face of the mountain sides and form rivers.
which flow through mountain ravines and
into the valleys below, and some flowing
ocean-ward in deep subterrauean channels.
These surface streams by dams and irri-
eating canals can be, and in many places.
especially in Southern California, and in
the Tulare and Kern valley basins, and in
the upper part Of the great San Joaquin
valley, have been, by mans industry and
skill. conducted along hillsides and over
plains and valleys and have made them
an earthly paradise. The streams which
How in sGbterraneaE channels can be- and.
IN many instances, have been brought to
the surface of the earth through artesian
wells, and, with constant flow. render GER
tain the productiveness of the soil over
which spread their waters. am not de-
livering treatise on irrigation. merely
state the fact that there Is comparatively
little land in California needing moisture
through artificial means TO which such
needed moisture cannot be supplied if the
stors-houses of such moisture, which ma
ture has provided, be properly utilized |
need not speak of the deep rich soil of the
tule and tide lands of this State, which are
now being rapidly and thoroughly re-
claimed. except to ailude to what has been
accomplished elswhere. Holland is kept
free front the waves of the mighty ocea,,
By large ard substantial dykes, and il
would be saying but little for the skill of